SIR MORELL MACKENZIE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7198, 5 February 1892, Page 3

SIR MORELL MACKENZIE.

[SPBCIAL TO PbBSB ABBOOIATION.I LONDON, Fkb. 4. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the eminent phjßiciaD, died to-day of influenza. [Received Feb. 5, st 10.40 a.m.] LONDON, Fbb. 4. Sir Morell Mackenzie died of syncope following influenza. This morning's cable messages announce that Sir Morell Mackenzie is dead. Sit Morell wai born at Leytonatone, Essex, in 1837, and educated at the London Hospital Medical College, Paris, and Vienna. He founded the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, 1863; and in the same year obtained the Jackaoman Prize from the Boyal College of Surgeons for his Essay on Diseases of the Larynx. He was soon afterwards elected Assistant-Physi-cian to the London Hospital, becoming in due course full physician, and was appointed Lecturer on Diseriea of the Throat. He was a Correspond" ing Member of the Imperial Boyal Society of Physicians of Vienna, and of the Medical Society of Prague, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Laryngological Association. He was the author of numerous publications on laryngological subjects, and in particular of a systematic treatise in two volumes, on " Diseases of the Throat and Nose," which is acknowledged to be a standard work. It has been translated into French and Garman, and has had a very large circulation both in this country and in America. Dr Mackenzie wrote monographe on diphtheria and hay-fever, and he published an article on " Specialism in Medicine" in the June number of the Fortnightly Review (1885), which excited considerable attention. In recognition of his services to the late Kaiser Frederick, Her Majesty in 1888 conferred a knighthood on Dr Mackenzie, who was honoured by the Emperor with the Grand Cross and the Star of the Hohenzollern Order. In the same year Sir Morell published, in vindication of his treatment of the late Emperor, " The Fatal Illness of Frederick the Noble."